Show ADVANCE J r l. l l' l Soil jia Salt I o. o 7 I Per Pel PerAn dr f t r 1 An advance tic of or 60 50 cents a hundred ci s s' s f for r potatoes whIch had peen been een i selling for tor 4 25 per p per r hundred on on th the ff Sail at t Lake LaIte market cr created ted mild astonishment asI as- as w I tO among consumers S Sat Sat- t. t da day day ot Jos week T but l it is predicted predict predict- ed that ed-that that it it will be the last advance va ce of the if-the the s season seaon on because potatoes which t the l elt erne me c cold ld held el in pits in Ida a 1 I Jio are about to be thrown wi on the ak ke t i M MV Grocers roc reflected V ct d tha that tha I t ith toes just half as expensive as sUg sugar r farmers whom they acc accuse se of regu- regu In lUng ng tite p potato prices th s may well afford ti f to t 0 e in luxury ury s I Though Jh there g s hort shortage of potatoes oi on i L J. J market tie the supply sup- sup 1 ply ly is sa said tl to be quite abundant in I I t arm r district i pits rits and w were re it not ot for forthe forthe the tho impossible S bl condition of roads of-roads roads tt to to railroad d d points it itts itIs is said faid said that gr groc have an abundance of lubi tub lub- tub tub- ers i ir i kf When D ls Da county f farmers farmers learned learned learned learn learn- ed that merchandise rs representing i York mer mercantile an e houses were 4 45 56 pounds for for pot potatoes potto tc ei they complained COI that Ute Il ke roa ro-a i ts ls 1 leading from their high price Fic pits ero in s L poor c condi condition tion tieR that it vl l be impossible Ie to get Their ir crop to distributing distributing centers far for weeks l the he ni market on p potatoes po po- t oes Coa may have dropp dropped H C The same condition to exist in- in JL I Idaho laho where where tI the e ex excessive col cold It unsafe to move potatoes l From pits and nd with rel relief ef from from sl si cold roads have have been jeen found to tobe be In ia such serious condition om uon ti that at th the hauling of f pro products to railroads may maybe be delayed ayed until the latter pa part t of March i Having bec become m pr not o only IY to to gr grocers ers erst t hilt but ut consumers 1 rs potatoes were p put t up in Salt Lake gro groceries eries i in carefully y w weighed i hed sack lots a at the I following g rates ratel Fi Five pounds poun s 30 cen cents cents' 10 O pounds 60 60 cents 15 85 cents 35 pounds 1 55 ali and 60 6 0 2 5 I pou pou's s if- if Herald Republican Rep Salt tit Lake merchandise brokers representing big mercantile housein house in New York and other big eastern stern cities entered catered the local market yesterday yes and offered r 50 a hun hundred r d pounds ds for fot potatoes and 2 10 a case for tomatoes s s. s a and d' d simi rI at t act yc prices for for other canned vegetables It explained It-Is-explained Is explained is-explained that as the result o of shortage in potatoes and canned goods eastern st rn merc mercantile hou houses es have ye yc started a mV movement t of buying buying I all pH t th the sUI supplies tl tl at at an be secured d In middle l e west went t and and vestern western cities 3 This unusual activity se ms to be bethe betho betho tho the result result- of result of the fact that facto that the sur surplus surplus sur plus of f s supplies has been exhausted uste said Jesse tasse esse Smith manager of th the United Grocery company yesterday I have been offered a case for all the canned tomatoes in be store |